ROME -- As the aftershocks of the violence which marred the G8 summit at Genoa still reverberate across the country, fears of further clashes with anti-globalization demonstrators are giving Italy the summit jitters.

Calls to relocate two major international summits were continuing Tuesday as senior ministers added their weight to moves to relocate the November UN Food Agency Summit from Rome to Africa and to find a new home for next month's NATO defense ministers' conference at Naples.

Relocating either conference would take some doing. The invitations to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Summit have already been issued and it would be difficult -- but not impossible -- to find a new venue for several thousand delegates either in Africa or anywhere else.

Finding a new location for the NATO conference would be an even more Herculean task as that summit is due to take place in Naples on September 26-27.

On the day Genoa Mayor Giuseppe Pericu told a parliamentary committee that the city had suffered a "moral blow" from last month's G8 summit riots, those in favour of moving the food and agriculture summit said the threat of similar violence, plus a growing realization that conferences about food distribution should be held in countries with recognized food problems, mean it is time for someone else to take over, AFP said.

The government's dilemma has been satirized by the daily newspaper ***La Stampa*** which cranked the debate up further on Tuesday with an editorial saying Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was "worked up" about the debate.

It published a cartoon showing Interior Minister Claudio Scajola telling Berlusconi that his German counterpart Otto Schily was against moving the summit.

In the caption Berlusconi replies: "Tell him that we will guard Rome if he successfully locks up the block' Nazis in Hitler's bunker" -- a reference to the violent "black block" demonstrators.

The idea of moving the food and agriculture summit has as many detractors as proponents.

Domenico Fisichella, vice president of the Post-Fascist National Alliance Party said: "If we give up, we show that the state is weak and that we have no confidence in our forces of law and order."

Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni also thinks the summit should continue.

"It would be grotesque that Rome, home of the FAO, was not able to organize the summit. It would be like New York not being able to guarantee the holding of the General Assembly of the United Nations."

Now the green and hard-line communist parties have added further fuel to the fire by calling for the cancellation of the Naples NATO summit over security concerns.

Anti-globalization protestors have already indicated they intend to be out in force at Naples.

Francesco Caruso, leader of the Naples group no global, has gone on record saying if the NATO summit goes ahead, demonstrators will take to the streets and that "Naples is a more explosive town than Genoa."

Defense Minister Antonio Martino said in a radio interview on Tuesday that the NATO summit must go ahead as planned, regardless of threats.

"We must not say that we are not capable of organizing this type of event, but the final decision lies with the government," he said.

The government will make that decision at a special meeting on Thursday.